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coast

/koʊst/ verbe B1

En français : aller en roue libre, caboter

  1. To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power. (intransitive) · When I ran out of gas, fortunately I managed to coast into a nearby gas station.
  2. To sail along a coast. (intransitive)
  3. To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort. (figuratively, intransitive)

He/she/it coasts · Prétérit coasted · Participe passé coasted · Forme en -ing coasting

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Dans la bibliothèque

(Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 12 · B2
The Peddler saw through his trick and drove him for the third time to the coast, where he bought a cargo of sponges instead of salt.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 20 · B2
As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a violent tempest arose in which the ship was wrecked and he, his Monkey, and all the crew were obliged to swim for their lives.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 68 · B2
The next morn broke off the coast of Aleria; all day they coasted, and in the evening saw fires lighted on land; the position of these was no doubt a signal for landing, for a ship’s lantern was hung up at the mast-head instead of the streamer, and they came to within a gunshot of the shore.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 239 · C1

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